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Is Serious Business Bilingual Bonus Black Comedy Obfuscating Stupidity Disney Villain Death Tap on the Head Groin Attack Dumb Blonde The Stoic Dogged Nice Guy Adaptational Attractiveness Posthumous Character Punch-Clock Villain Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Stealth Pun Worthy Opponent Eiffel Tower Effect Closed Circle Funny Background Event Distracted by the Sexy Continuity Nod Scary Black Man Gold Digger Punny Name Karmic Death Line-of-Sight Name The '60s Danny Peary Cult Movies List Would Hit a Girl Together in Death Fun with Acronyms Big Applesauce Leave the Camera Running Dirty Coward Toplessness from the Back Television Movie Index The Starscream Jump Scare Better to Die than Be Killed No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Fainting Unspoken Plan Guarantee The '70s Took a Level in Badass The Hero Dies Dirty Old Man Light Is Not Good The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Interrupted Suicide What You Are in the Dark Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Chekhov's Gunman Jerk with a Heart of Gold Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Celebrity Paradox One Steve Limit Dutch Angle Canadian Movies Affably Evil Revenge Badass Boast Horror Comedy Mighty Whitey Evil Counterpart Soundtrack Dissonance Those Two Bad Guys Animated Credits Opening Mood Whiplash Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Adaptational Badass Black and Gray Morality Crazy-Prepared Body Horror Camp Gay The Mole The Remake Mugging the Monster Wham Shot Ms. Fanservice Villainous Breakdown Dark Is Not Evil Despair Event Horizon Chekhov's Skill Everyone Has Standards Mind Screw Bavarian Fire Drill Heel Realization Henpecked Husband Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Overly Long Gag La Résistance The Oner Dressing as the Enemy Casting Gag Market-Based Title Say My Name The Musical Badass Longcoat Blackmail Cat Fight Anti-Hero Jerk Jock Broken Aesop Cool Shades May–December Romance Batman Gambit Fanservice As Long as It Sounds Foreign Made of Explodium Becoming the Mask The '90s It's Personal The Bad Guy Wins Deliberate Values Dissonance Pragmatic Villainy Award-Bait Song Deconstruction Conspicuous CG Works Set in World War II Depraved Bisexual Fourth Date Marriage Pragmatic Adaptation Skewed Priorities Decoy Protagonist Does This Remind You of Anything? Up to Eleven Poor Communication Kills The Brute Fatal Family Photo Ascended Extra Male Gaze Plot Hole Smoking Is Cool Scenery Gorn Mama Bear Deus ex Machina Big-Bad Ensemble Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Unusual Euphemism Bound and Gagged Leaning on the Fourth Wall Alliterative Name Accidental Misnaming Heroic Sacrifice Exactly What It Says on the Tin Never Found the Body Frame-Up Twist Ending Stylistic Suck A.I. Is a Crapshoot Protagonist Title Green-Eyed Monster Papa Wolf Token Minority Spared by the Adaptation Parental Substitute Hypocrite Australian Movies Put on a Bus Expy Mr. Exposition Friend to All Children Politically Incorrect Villain Amoral Attorney Running Gag Logo Joke Hooker with a Heart of Gold Ripped from the Headlines Dull Surprise Eureka Moment Married to the Job Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Eldritch Abomination Big Bad Aside Glance Sacrificial Lion Evil-Detecting Dog Arc Words Suddenly SHOUTING! Mundane Made Awesome Offscreen Teleportation Bait-and-Switch Those Two Guys Brother–Sister Incest Determinator aka: The Determinator The End... Or Is It? Take That! Rated M for Manly Shell-Shocked Veteran Reality Is Unrealistic You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Epic Fail Four-Temperament Ensemble Police are Useless Manchild Big Damn Heroes Your Cheating Heart Black Comedy Rape Thriller Death of a Child Men Are the Expendable Gender I Need a Freaking Drink French Films The Ace Wounded Gazelle Gambit Bland-Name Product Loophole Abuse Actor Allusion Covers Always Lie Dramatic Gun Cock Downer Ending Karma Houdini Psycho for Hire Homage Vacation Films Suspiciously Specific Denial Fate Worse than Death Break the Haughty One-Man Army Early-Bird Cameo True Companions Match Cut Straight Gay Artistic License – Military Cassandra Truth Guile Hero Alpha Bitch Ominous Latin Chanting Based on a True Story Cruel and Unusual Death Word of God Didn't Think This Through Damsel in Distress timeperiod Evil Sounds Deep Dying Moment of Awesome Intrepid Reporter Romantic False Lead "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Insult Backfire Kick the Son of a Bitch Expository Hairstyle Change My Greatest Failure Grievous Bottley Harm Disney Death Small Name, Big Ego Adapted Out What Happened to the Mouse? Public Domain Feature Films Exact Words Meet Cute Big Bad Duumvirate Department of Redundancy Department Ragtag Bunch of Misfits An Aesop Love Triangle Hoist by His Own Petard BFG Defrosting Ice Queen Daylight Horror Crapsack World Does Not Like Shoes Alas, Poor Villain Have a Gay Old Time Rule of Funny Spell My Name with an "S" Silent Movie Chekhov's Gun Index of Film Westerns Bloody Hilarious Facial Horror Moment Killer An Arm and a Leg Improbable Aiming Skills Beta Couple Country Matters Only Sane Man Get Out! Spanner in the Works Catch-Phrase Curse Cut Short The Cameo Video Credits Not Quite Dead The Dragon The Dog Bites Back Camera Abuse Idiot Ball A God Am I "The Reason You Suck" Speech I Have Your Wife Bury Your Gays Awesome, but Impractical Vomit Discretion Shot The Load Bald of Evil Abusive Parents Fingore Red Right Hand The X of Y Extremely Short Timespan The Vamp Good Is Not Nice Deal with the Devil Riddle for the Ages Sequel Escalation In the Back Anguished Declaration of Love Refuge in Audacity Adaptation Name Change Disappeared Dad Foregone Conclusion Real Life Action Girl Serious Business Dissonant Serenity Heroes Want Redheads She Cleans Up Nicely Advertised Extra Stock Footage Children Are Innocent Never My Fault Accidental Murder MacGuffin Hong Kong Films Arch-Enemy Diabolus ex Machina Gainax Ending Police Brutality Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Made of Iron Unresolved Sexual Tension Pyrrhic Victory Jerkass Has a Point Take a Third Option Martial Arts Movie Recycled IN SPACE! War Is Hell It Will Never Catch On Wham Line Off-into-the-Distance Ending 20 Minutes into the Future Trailers Always Spoil The Lost Lenore Did Not Get the Girl Neck Snap You Have Failed Me Bloodless Carnage Well-Intentioned Extremist Suspiciously Similar Substitute Italian Films Actually Pretty Funny Rasputinian Death Blonde, Brunette, Redhead No-Sell Needs Wiki Magic Love Belligerent Sexual Tension Armor-Piercing Question Not So Stoic The '50s Victoria's Secret Compartment Easily Forgiven Nice Guy Hollywood Darkness Never Trust a Trailer Vitriolic Best Buds Card-Carrying Villain Big "NO!" Animal Title Index Heterosexual Life-Partners Science Fiction Films Pay Evil unto Evil The Bully Evil Cannot Comprehend Good More Dakka Demoted to Extra Mad Scientist Stealth Hi/Bye Bottomless Magazines Annoying Younger Sibling Adaptational Villainy Catapult Nightmare Pretty Little Headshots This Is Gonna Suck Badass Normal Here We Go Again! 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It's All About Me Irony Hell Is That Noise "Shaggy Dog" Story Dwindling Party He Knows Too Much Woman Scorned The Place Manic Pixie Dream Girl Death by Adaptation Motor Mouth Pretty in Mink Humiliation Conga Properly Paranoid All Just a Dream After the End Our Vampires Are Different Not So Above It All Dies Wide Open Bare Your Midriff Hypocritical Humor Betty and Veronica Dropped a Bridge on Him Guns Akimbo Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Extreme Doormat N-Word Privileges Gratuitous English Insane Troll Logic Our Zombies Are Different Redshirt Army Defiant to the End Race Lift Affectionate Parody Self-Deprecation Unwitting Instigator of Doom The Power of Love Smug Snake Offscreen Moment of Awesome Death Seeker Mr. Fanservice Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Flipping the Bird Slashed Throat Nothing Is Scarier Rousing Speech The Great Depression Adorkable NO INDOOR VOICE Reasonable Authority Figure Villain Protagonist Time Skip Visual Pun Grey and Gray Morality Cowboy Cop Girl-on-Girl Is Hot The Stinger Character Development Major Injury Underreaction Early Installment Weirdness No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Tranquil Fury Shout-Out Badass Grandpa Manipulative Bastard He Who Fights Monsters Gone Horribly Right Artistic License – Gun Safety The Stoner British Films Anachronism Stew Madness Mantra Greater-Scope Villain Once More, with Clarity! Action Genre Double-Meaning Title Cool Old Lady Neck Lift Corpsing Genre Savvy There Is No Kill Like Overkill Arranged Marriage Throwing Your Sword Always Works Costume Porn Aluminum Christmas Trees Random Events Plot The Chessmaster The Faceless No Name Given Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Call-Forward Drives Like Crazy Super Strength Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Amusing Injuries Parental Abandonment Drill Sergeant Nasty Epic Movie Music Stories Only One Name My God, What Have I Done? Historical In-Joke B-Movie Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Blatant Lies Historical-Domain Character Precision F-Strike Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Insistent Terminology Heroic BSoD As Himself Authority Equals Asskicking Breaking the Fourth Wall Adaptation Dye-Job Wrong Genre Savvy Historical Hero Upgrade Off with His Head! Big Brother Instinct Bond One-Liner All for Nothing Soft Glass Only Known by Their Nickname Japanese Films Blood Knight Bad "Bad Acting" Sequel Hook Big Fancy House Woman in White For Want of a Nail The Voiceless Kick the Dog Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Malevolent Masked Men A Date with Rosie Palms Deliberately Monochrome Those Wacky Nazis Jitter Cam Improbable Weapon User Famous Last Words Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Brainless Beauty Earn Your Happy Ending Rule of Symbolism Pimped-Out Dress Bolivian Army Ending Mercy Kill Love at First Sight Whole Plot Reference Title Drop Knight Templar Gilligan Cut Failed a Spot Check Gory Discretion Shot Honor Before Reason Black Dude Dies First Developing Doomed Characters Dual Wielding Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass No Antagonist Scare Chord Dirty Cop Abhorrent Admirer Evil Laugh Ship Tease Parental Neglect She's Got Legs The Reveal Slap-Slap-Kiss The Quiet One Monumental Damage Sci-Fi Horror Kubrick Stare All There in the Script Driven to Suicide Noodle Incident Rich Bitch Wretched Hive Shut Up, Hannibal! Coming-of-Age Story Make It Look Like an Accident Broken Pedestal Villain Song Psychopathic Manchild Comically Missing the Point The Alleged Car Biopic The Atoner Faking the Dead The Ditz Anti-Villain Sanity Slippage Ghost Fiction Dramatic Irony Military and Warfare Films Pre-Mortem One-Liner Same Language Dub I'm a Humanitarian Villain with Good Publicity Captain Obvious Not So Different Canon Foreigner Immune to Bullets Berserk Button The Lancer Mistaken for Gay Sealed Evil in a Can Happily Married Improvised Weapon Nice Hat Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Combat Pragmatist You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Wicked Cultured Meaningful Background Event Non-Indicative Name Kill It with Fire Fat Bastard Show Within a Show All Girls Want Bad Boys Christmas Movies Index Mooks Not Using the "Z" Word Captain Ersatz Rape as Drama Laughing Mad Freeze-Frame Bonus Lampshade Hanging The Mafia Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Rewatch Bonus Villain Opening Scene I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Cool Car Reckless Gun Usage Fish out of Water Daddy's Girl Corrupt Corporate Executive Hero of Another Story In Medias Res The Smurfette Principle Fire-Forged Friends A Father to His Men Beard of Evil Broken Bird Credits Gag Butt-Monkey Evil Brit Even Evil Has Loved Ones Instant Death Bullet Brutal Honesty Adaptation Expansion Storming the Castle Room Full of Crazy Sole Survivor Documentary Bowdlerise Oh, Crap! Demonic Possession Paper-Thin Disguise Getting Crap Past the Radar Asshole Victim You Killed My Father Overprotective Dad Obstructive Bureaucrat "Awesome McCool" Name Babies Ever After From Bad to Worse The Un-Reveal Genre Throwback Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Last-Name Basis One-Word Title Death by Sex Mystery and Detective Films Age Lift The Sociopath Half the Man He Used to Be Cain and Abel Darker and Edgier German Films Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Large Ham Taking You with Me Antagonist Title Empathic Environment Informed Ability Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique As You Know Obviously Evil Bond Villain Stupidity Ironic Echo Adaptational Heroism Badass Bookworm Crucified Hero Shot Double Entendre Foil Contrived Coincidence Shower Scene Star-Crossed Lovers Villain Ball Stepford Smiler Red Shirt Slasher Movie The '80s Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil I Did What I Had to Do Hollywood Law Deadpan Snarker Pet the Dog Shirtless Scene I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Central Theme Ungrateful Bastard Psychological Thriller Genre Shift Meaningful Name Man on Fire Chase Scene Unusually Uninteresting Sight Author Appeal Stalker with a Crush Fake Shemp Five-Man Band Drugs Are Bad The Hero Too Dumb to Live Translation Convention Artistic License – Physics Eyepatch of Power Face–Heel Turn Jerkass Missing Mom Creepy Child Knife Nut Back from the Dead "Well Done, Son!" Guy Dark Reprise Important Haircut Superhero Boom, Headshot! folderlabel Training Montage Totally Radical Ambiguous Ending Sassy Black Woman Race Against the Clock An Axe to Grind Cool Guns From Nobody to Nightmare Only a Flesh Wound Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Heel–Face Turn Car Fu Evil vs. Evil Retired Badass Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Male Frontal Nudity Intergenerational Friendship Shoot the Shaggy Dog Action Prologue Beware the Nice Ones Anyone Can Die Artistic License – History Mexican Standoff Cloudcuckoolander Adaptation Distillation Dramedy Bittersweet Ending The Cavalry Undying Loyalty Tempting Fate Not What It Looks Like Auto Erotica Calling the Old Man Out Evil Is Hammy No Celebrities Were Harmed Destination Defenestration Bunny-Ears Lawyer Hair-Trigger Temper Disproportionate Retribution Action Survivor Playing Gertrude The Casanova Hidden Depths Vomit Indiscretion Shot Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Red Herring Spiteful Spit Brick Joke Dark and Troubled Past Ambiguously Gay Took a Level in Jerkass A Minor Kidroduction Cold-Blooded Torture As the Good Book Says... And I Must Scream Black Best Friend Every Car Is a Pinto Darkest Hour Morality Pet Sinister Minister Freudian Excuse Russian Films Book-Ends Humans Are Bastards The Film of the Book Hope Spot Be Careful What You Wish For Historical Villain Upgrade Femme Fatale Fan Disservice Laser-Guided Karma Bloodier and Gorier Film Noir Call-Back Ax-Crazy And the Adventure Continues Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Your Head A-Splode Gender Flip Scenery Porn Attempted Rape Dark Action Girl Chewing the Scenery Kids Are Cruel Even Evil Has Standards Outrun the Fireball Chiaroscuro Killed Mid-Sentence Screw the Money, I Have Rules! It Can Think Ass Shove Domestic Abuse Determinator No OSHA Compliance Romantic Comedy The Dreaded Fiery Redhead What the Hell, Hero? Establishing Character Moment Hero Antagonist Truth in Television Naïve Newcomer Tagline Redemption Equals Death Bullying a Dragon Creative Closing Credits Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Yandere Retcon Implacable Man How We Got Here Novelization Handicapped Badass Let's Get Dangerous! Badass in a Nice Suit Bad Boss Sports Stories Vampire Fiction Artistic License – Geography Loads and Loads of Characters Break the Cutie All There in the Manual Naked People Are Funny Taking the Bullet Maybe Ever After Product Placement Rule of Cool Red Oni, Blue Oni Fanservice Extra Kill 'em All Author Avatar Imagine Spot Lock and Load Montage Serial Killer Cat Scare Big Eater Artistic License – Law Crazy Jealous Guy Foreshadowing Leitmotif Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Evil Plan Beauty Is Never Tarnished Hate Sink Adults Are Useless Sexy Discretion Shot Parental Incest Creator Cameo '80s Hair Due to the Dead Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Mythology Gag Red Eyes, Take Warning Air-Vent Passageway World of Ham Narrator Would Hurt a Child Manly Tears Fatal Flaw Disguised in Drag Not Even Bothering with the Accent Ambiguous Disorder Zombie Stories Silence Is Golden Real Life Writes the Plot Drowning My Sorrows Reality Ensues Horror Films Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Adult Fear Animal Motifs Film Series Sadistic Choice Reality Has No Subtitles Re-Cut Very Loosely Based on a True Story Spiritual Successor My Beloved Smother And Starring Retirony Faux Affably Evil The Big Guy Enemy Mine Anachronic Order Gorn